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OT WiFi Repeater Or ???
My cell phone, Consumer Cellular, company offers a wifi hotspot device
that ties to the phone network only. A one time purchase is required. It is WiFi only (no USB dongle capability like Sprint has) but capable of up to 10 (if I remember correctly) simultaneous WiFi connections. My Consumer Cellular goes through AT&T now since I had problems with the phone sim that was on T-Mobile. Areas I went to before were not covered by T-Mobile but are by AT&T. So for free they gave me an AT&T sim card. Is there a way to expand the area of such a device such that it will cover all of my house ? Is there a way to connect it to my isolated home WiFi LAN ? I would need one "port" to get the home WIFI LAN out on the Internet so I could see my security cams remotely. I.E. some WiFi repeater ? Or whatever. I have WiFi cameras and several PC that add to more than 10. I do not need high speed. |
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OT WiFi Repeater Or ???
OT wrote:
My cell phone, Consumer Cellular, company offers a wifi hotspot device that ties to the phone network only. A one time purchase is required. It is WiFi only (no USB dongle capability like Sprint has) but capable of up to 10 (if I remember correctly) simultaneous WiFi connections. My Consumer Cellular goes through AT&T now since I had problems with the phone sim that was on T-Mobile. Areas I went to before were not covered by T-Mobile but are by AT&T. So for free they gave me an AT&T sim card. Is there a way to expand the area of such a device such that it will cover all of my house ? Is there a way to connect it to my isolated home WiFi LAN ? I would need one "port" to get the home WIFI LAN out on the Internet so I could see my security cams remotely. I.E. some WiFi repeater ? Or whatever. I have WiFi cameras and several PC that add to more than 10. I do not need high speed. https://www.consumercellular.com/blo...obile-hotspot/ "The ZTE Mobile Hotspot uses a cellular signal to create a powerful, 4G LTE wireless internet network for up to 10 devices." "Phil Dehnert asks: ... possibility of increasing your 4GB maximum data usage --- [uh, oh] " Great. Your 4G service has a "data cap". You will exhaust that cap in about 2 microseconds, if you run your collection of IP cameras through it. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Paul |
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OT WiFi Repeater Or ???
On 5/11/2017 5:00 PM, Paul wrote:
OT wrote: My cell phone, Consumer Cellular, company offers a wifi hotspot device that ties to the phone network only. A one time purchase is required. And usually an additional monthly charge. It is WiFi only (no USB dongle capability like Sprint has) but capable of up to 10 (if I remember correctly) simultaneous WiFi connections. My Consumer Cellular goes through AT&T now since I had problems with the phone sim that was on T-Mobile. Areas I went to before were not covered by T-Mobile but are by AT&T. So for free they gave me an AT&T sim card. Is there a way to expand the area of such a device such that it will cover all of my house ? Is there a way to connect it to my isolated home WiFi LAN ? I would need one "port" to get the home WIFI LAN out on the Internet so I could see my security cams remotely. I.E. some WiFi repeater ? Or whatever. I have WiFi cameras and several PC that add to more than 10. I do not need high speed. The devil is in the details of what you actually wish to accomplish. You used some words that may or may not make the process more difficult. Assuming you have a home network that meets all your local needs for computing and viewing your cameras, but no internet access. A key question is whether the cellular hotspot will bridge local devices or just allow isolated web access. The device may or may not allow the port forwarding you're gonna need to access cameras on the web. I expect that crippled hardware provided by cellular companies won't do that. I expect you're gonna need a routed bridge between your network and the hotspot. Consumer devices usually won't do that. You might have to resort to something like DD-WRT to achieve it. I did something like that to bridge one end of the house to the other. Problem with that is that when you shutdown the hotspot, the rest of the network might get very unhappy, and it might not recover when you turn the hotspot back on. Configuring it to solve that problem may create others. You don't want to leave the hotspot turned on if you don't have unlimited data. Once you get it set up, what are you gonna do with it? If you expect to stream several webcams thru your hotspot to the web and back to your phone, as Paul suggests, you're gonna be using data at a rate you can't afford on both the phone and the hotspot. If all you want to do is look at the current image snapshots infrequently, you may find it affordable. Personally, I don't like to have stuff directly connected to the web thru something that costs a lot of money and is mostly out of my control. Too many opportunities to accidentally leave something streaming in the background or have your phone wake up for some update and resume streaming, resulting in data limit issues. https://www.consumercellular.com/blo...obile-hotspot/ "The ZTE Mobile Hotspot uses a cellular signal to create a powerful, 4G LTE wireless internet network for up to 10 devices." "Phil Dehnert asks: ... possibility of increasing your 4GB maximum data usage --- [uh, oh] " Great. Your 4G service has a "data cap". You will exhaust that cap in about 2 microseconds, if you run your collection of IP cameras through it. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Paul |
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OT WiFi Repeater Or ???
Hi Mike and others. Try this... have you ever heard of an unlocked phone so you are not \lock to your service provider? Here is where you can get one and more detail....
It can also save you Long distance charges.... http://www.phonegroundzero.com On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 6:52:18 PM UTC-7, mike wrote: On 5/11/2017 5:00 PM, Paul wrote: OT wrote: My cell phone, Consumer Cellular, company offers a wifi hotspot device that ties to the phone network only. A one time purchase is required. And usually an additional monthly charge. It is WiFi only (no USB dongle capability like Sprint has) but capable of up to 10 (if I remember correctly) simultaneous WiFi connections. My Consumer Cellular goes through AT&T now since I had problems with the phone sim that was on T-Mobile. Areas I went to before were not covered by T-Mobile but are by AT&T. So for free they gave me an AT&T sim card. Is there a way to expand the area of such a device such that it will cover all of my house ? Is there a way to connect it to my isolated home WiFi LAN ? I would need one "port" to get the home WIFI LAN out on the Internet so I could see my security cams remotely. I.E. some WiFi repeater ? Or whatever. I have WiFi cameras and several PC that add to more than 10. I do not need high speed. The devil is in the details of what you actually wish to accomplish. You used some words that may or may not make the process more difficult. Assuming you have a home network that meets all your local needs for computing and viewing your cameras, but no internet access. A key question is whether the cellular hotspot will bridge local devices or just allow isolated web access. The device may or may not allow the port forwarding you're gonna need to access cameras on the web. I expect that crippled hardware provided by cellular companies won't do that. I expect you're gonna need a routed bridge between your network and the hotspot. Consumer devices usually won't do that. You might have to resort to something like DD-WRT to achieve it. I did something like that to bridge one end of the house to the other. Problem with that is that when you shutdown the hotspot, the rest of the network might get very unhappy, and it might not recover when you turn the hotspot back on. Configuring it to solve that problem may create others. You don't want to leave the hotspot turned on if you don't have unlimited data. Once you get it set up, what are you gonna do with it? If you expect to stream several webcams thru your hotspot to the web and back to your phone, as Paul suggests, you're gonna be using data at a rate you can't afford on both the phone and the hotspot. If all you want to do is look at the current image snapshots infrequently, you may find it affordable. Personally, I don't like to have stuff directly connected to the web thru something that costs a lot of money and is mostly out of my control. Too many opportunities to accidentally leave something streaming in the background or have your phone wake up for some update and resume streaming, resulting in data limit issues. https://www.consumercellular.com/blo...obile-hotspot/ "The ZTE Mobile Hotspot uses a cellular signal to create a powerful, 4G LTE wireless internet network for up to 10 devices." "Phil Dehnert asks: ... possibility of increasing your 4GB maximum data usage --- [uh, oh] " Great. Your 4G service has a "data cap". You will exhaust that cap in about 2 microseconds, if you run your collection of IP cameras through it. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Paul |
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